EASA Calls for More A320 Checks Following Operational Disruptions as More Aircraft Return from Pandemic Storage Written 24 June 2021

Reuters reports that the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has “called for more rigorous checks when pulling some Airbus jets out of pandemic storage, following flawed cockpit readings that can suggest blocked sensors.” EASA “said in a safety directive covering the Airbus A320 family that ‘an increasing number of operational disruptions have been reported due to airspeed discrepancies.’” An EASA spokesperson “said the events included commercial flights and in most cases led to aborted takeoff.” The reports “prompted Airbus to carry out further computer simulations which suggested that problems with two out of three sensors may affect the plane’s stability during take-off, though none of these events happened in operations, EASA said.”
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